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  • Chicken Nugget Recall: Tyson Recalls Nuggets Sold at Sam’s Club

    Tyson Foods announced on Friday that the company is recalling thousands of pounds of their chicken nuggets. Two different chicken nugget products were included in the recall: five-pound bags of white meat chicken nuggets and 20-pound packs of nugget-shaped chicken breast patties.

    A whopping 75,320 pounds of nuggets were recalled because they were “contaminated with extraneous materials.” According to the USDA, the company recalled the nuggets after a consumer complained about finding plastic pieces in the product. After an investigation, Tyson officials were able to pinpoint the source of the contamination, which was a blending machine. So far there haven’t been any illnesses reported related to the recalled chicken nuggets, and the USDA classifies this recall as a low health risk.

    To see if any of the Tyson products you have purchased fall under the chicken nugget recall, check out the details of the recall below:

    5-lb. bags of Tyson Fully Cooked White Meat Chicken Nuggets – 16142-928 with a Best if Used By date of Jan 26 2015 or Feb 16 2015. The manufacturer codes 0264SDL0315 through 19 and 0474SDL0311 through 14 can also be found on the bags. These products were produced Jan. 26, 2014 or Feb. 16, 2014 and shipped nationwide to one retail warehouse club chain.

    20-lb. bulk packs of Spare Time Fully Cooked Nugget-Shaped Chicken Breast Pattie Fritters w/Rib Meat – 16142-861 with identifying case codes of 0264SDL0315 through 19 and 0474SDL0311 through 14. These products were produced Jan. 26 and Feb. 16, 2014 and were shipped for institutional use in Indiana and Arkansas.

    As you will notice in the chicken nugget recall information, the five-pound bags of nuggets were sold exclusively to one retail warehouse club chain, which has been identified as Sam’s Club. Tyson says on their Twitter page that other retailers weren’t affected by the recall:

    If you have a bag of nuggets under the recall, follow these instructions from Tyson to receive a refund:

    If a consumer has a bag of affected product, discard the product, cut the UPC and date code from the back and mail it to Tyson Foods – CP631, P.O. Box 2020, Springdale, AR, 72765-9989 for a full refund.

    This isn’t the first recall Tyson Foods has issued this year. Another recall was issued in January for nearly 34,000 pounds of mechanically separated chicken products that were possibly contaminated with salmonella.

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  • Beagle Chicken Nuggets: Smart Dog Raids Oven

    Have you ever wondered what your dog is up to while you’re away? The owner of a beagle named Lucy was curious, so he set up a video camera to record his dog while he was out and discovered that Lucy has a really clever way of stealing food. The owner posted the video of his beagle stealing chicken nuggets on YouTube, which has been watched almost 2 million times so far.

    Rodd Scheinerman of Phoenix, Arizona posted the video of his dog Lucy stealing the chicken nuggets to his YouTube account back in July, but the video has just gone viral over the past couple of days. According to Scheinerman’s comment on the video, he would come home and find a mess in the kitchen and notice that food was missing, so he decided to set up a camera to find out exactly what was going on. It’s probably safe to say that Scheinerman was in for a bit of a surprise when he saw how Lucy was getting to his food.

    Check out the full video of the beagle stealing chicken nuggets from the oven below.

    As you can see in the video, Lucy goes through a few steps to get to the counter top oven to steal the chicken nuggets. The beagle first pushes a chair over to the counter. When the chair is close enough, she jumps on top of the counter and makes her way over to the oven. Lucy then uses her paw to open the oven door, which is probably one of the top 10 cutest things you will see in 2014. The dog eventually rakes out the pan the nuggets are on and knocks it to the floor, where she then enjoys her stolen food. Some YouTube users have asked if Lucy was trained to do this, but Scheinerman says in the comments that his family didn’t teach the dog how to raid an oven.

    While most people seem to think the video is awesome, some folks have criticized the dog’s owner for purposely letting her get into an oven. According to the video description, the oven is set at 325 degrees, which could have given Lucy a serious burn.

    “Hey, did she ever run across the street unattended? If so, maybe next you should set up a tripod and tape her crossing an interstate highway !!! What the hell, why not right? Nah, just stick to 350 to 400 degree ovens for now, I guess, eh?” YouTube user David Colasanti commented.

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  • Chicken Nuggets: On the Interior

    The chicken nugget has become one of America’s most popular mystery meats. They’re cheap; they’re easy; they’re fast. Nuggets may end up killing you off later on in life, but in the mean time chicken nuggets are ever so convenient and easily welcomed into our bellies. Chicken nuggets are among the most favored foods of bratty and messy toddlers, worn-out mothers who don’t want to do any real cooking, and hopeful house pets waiting for a nugget to be dropped on the floor.

    It’s no news that nuggets are of the most criticized foods on the market due to the fact that no one seems to be certain about what the Hell they consist of. There are so many nugget questions: What planet did they come from? How’d they get their shape? Did the chicken exercise when it was alive? Is there actually any chicken in this nugget? What secrets lie underneath all this breading!?

    Some very curious researchers from Mississippi decided to take a close look at the interior of chicken nuggets in order to see what they may be hiding. The researchers decided to examine the insides of nuggets from two fast food chains. Via microscopic examination, the researchers found exactly what you would expect to find in any delicious, addictive fast food: stuff that sounds absolutely disgusting outside the context of a nugget.

    Researchers found that the nuggets contained fifty percent muscle with much of  the rest of the nugget consisting of fat, blood vessels, small pieces of bones, cartilage, and nerves. In place of producing nuggets of the preferred white meat chicken, companies have settled for producing nuggets from chicken parts and then neatly wrapping them in cozy coverings of fried batter. Yum.

    As if you didn’t know already, the chicken by-product found in many nugget brands  is high in fat, sugar, and salt, and thus is extremely unhealthy. However, regardless of their nightmarish components, these meaty concoctions are extremely tempting and delicious and have the taste potential to remain a preferred food for hungry Americans.

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  • Chicken Nuggets: Proven to be About Half By-Product

    A few brave scientists in Mississippi took the childhood favorite, the chicken nugget, and rendered it to it’s beginning state in order discover what many of us already knew, but some of us were in denial about: chicken nuggets aren’t entirely actual meat. If you’re a Jamie Oliver fan, you’ll never forget this diet-changing episode:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9B7im8aQjo

    “We all know white chicken meat to be one of the best sources of lean protein available and encourage our patients to eat it,” lead author Dr. Richard D. DeShazo of the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson, said to Reuters. “What has happened is that some companies have chosen to use an artificial mixture of chicken parts rather than low-fat chicken white meat, batter it up and fry it and still call it chicken.”

    The researchers chose two fast food chains in Jackson, and ordered the nuggets. They then chose one nugget from each box, and preserved it (more than usual, I guess). Then they broke the nugget apart, disected it, stained it, and looked at it under a microscope.

    Reportedly, the first nugget was about half muscle, with the rest a mix of fat, blood vessels and nerves. Close inspection revealed cells that line the skin and internal organs of the bird, the authors write in the American Journal of Medicine. The second nugget was only 40 percent muscle, and the remainder was fat, cartilage and pieces of bone. Gross!!

    According to CBS, lead author DeShazo said the study proves that chicken nuggets are actually chicken by-product and they consist of mostly salt, sugar and fat, all of which are empty calories. However, he unwittingly offers a good solution to parents (or grandparents) looking for an alternative. He said if his grandchildren ask for nuggets, he compromises by pan frying some chicken breasts with a little bit of oil.

    The researchers were not saying which fast food chains the nuggets came from, but we can probably be assured that it’s not much different wherever you drive thru.

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